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Kevin Hern: “The President said back in his first term that they needed…”

Featuring: Kevin Hern, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, 1st Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 04:49

And the President's basically sick and tired of it. The military, our military protecting other nations and them not paying anything to do that. That's why he The President said back in his first term that they needed to fund their 2% of NATO and now it's 5%. because their militaries are so bad they can't even protect their own nations when it comes to economic troubles like we're seeing right now. And the president is right about that. (04:49–05:02)

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Asserts that the President increased the NATO funding requirement from 2% to 5%.

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